Nonlinear scaling and its application to ferromagnetic systems

Abstract

Abstract Making use of renormalization-group ideas, a scaling equation of state applicable to ferromagnetic systems and involving the nonlinear scaling variables =∊/t and =h/t, instead of the usual linear scaling variables ∊=(T-Tc)/Tc = t-1 and h=H (ordering field), has been derived. The magnetic equation of state so obtained is then generalized to take into account the effect of nonlinear relevant and irrelevant scaling fields. To facilitate a comparison with experiments, the analytic (non-analytic) corrections to the dominant singular behaviour of spontaneous magnetization (order parameter) M(T, 0), ‘zero-field’ susceptibility χ(T, 0), and specific heat in zero field that the nonlinear relevant (irrelevant) scaling fields give rise to are explicitly calculated up to third order in Due consideration is also given to the modifications in the Arrott-Noakes form of the scaling equation of state and the Kouvel-Fisher definition of the effective susceptibility exponent brought about by these scaling fields. A...